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7:45 PM ET, April 21, 2010

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Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Mike Allen, the Man the White House Wakes Up To  —  Before he goes to sleep, between 11 and midnight, Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director, typically checks in by e-mail with the same reporter: Mike Allen of Politico, who is also the first reporter Pfeiffer corresponds with after he wakes up at 4:20.
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Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
Politico announces hires from NYO, NYP, Newsweek, other news outlets  —  We have lots of exciting staff moves, so let's get straight to the news:  —  Hillary Frey, formerly of the New York Observer, is our new media and style editor.  Hillary can flat-out write — and her mission is simple …
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism:
Guardian's Emily Bell named director of Tow Center for Digital Journalism  —  Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism today announces that Emily Bell, Director of Digital Content for Britain's Guardian News and Media, has been named the Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism.
Discussion: Romenesko, Guardian and paidContent
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Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
The Guardian's Emily Bell Splits to Head Columbia Journalism School's Digital Center  —  Emily Bell, appearing here at the Association of Online Publishers' Digital Publishing Summit 2008, will head Columbia University's new digital journalism program (photo courtesy of AOP).
Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Washington Post tool integrates Facebook with its site  —  In a move to create a more social experience on its site, The Washington Post has launched a new tool that integrates Facebook with how users navigate the site, allowing users to “like” any story and follow what their friends like or share …
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Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Facebook to Kill Facebook Connect  —  Facebook Connect, the company's tool for bringing your social graph to third-party websites, will soon be no more.  —  During a press conference today at Facebook's F8 conference in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the Facebook Connect brand …
Discussion: Soup and tag me with a spoon
Sebastien Provencher / The Praized Blog:
Facebook Launches Like Button for the Web: Why It Might Not Be For Your Site
Choire / The Awl:
Gabriel Snyder Now Executive Editor of ‘Newsweek’ Digital  —  Oh, it's a tricky job—as Devin Gordon found out.  The former editor of Gawker, however, is yet just the latest victim of the hiring thaw in Manhattan media!
Discussion: Digits, Gawker, The Wire and Romenesko
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Risky Business: Omidyar's Hawaiian News Startup Civil Beat Comes With Steep Price Tag  —  It sounds as idyllic as the scenery: an online civic square launching May 4 where Hawaiians can, as founder Pierre Omdiyar explains, “learn about and better understand our home, the challenges we face …
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Pierre Omidyar / civilbeat.com:
Welcome to Honolulu Civil Beat
Discussion: Business Week
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
MSNBC Pulls the Plug on Donny Deutsch's Weeklong Anchoring Stint  —  A week-long anchoring stint on MSNBC by Donny Deutsch ended abruptly on Wednesday, and four people briefed on the decision said the cancellation stemmed from an unflattering mention of that channel's No. 1 anchor, Keith Olbermann, a day earlier.
Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:
Student journalists need to learn SEO more than they need AP style  —  By Robert Niles: Last week, journalists reacting to the Associated Press's announcement that it would replace “Web site” with “website” in the AP Stylebook pushed the phrase “AP Stylebook” onto Twitter's trending topics list.
New York Post:
CBS wants to take on ‘The View’  —  CBS President Les Moonves' wife, Julie Chen, could soon be the face of a new daytime panel chat show for mothers.  Chen — who has a son, Charlie, with Moonves — and “Roseanne” star and lesbian mom Sara Gilbert are preparing to shoot a pilot for the network for a show to rival ABC's “The View.”
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
8M iPhone Gawker(s)  —  The next-generation iPhone that fell into the hands of an editor at Gawker Media's tech Web site Gizmodo has been returned to Apple, likely putting to rest questions about whether Gawker might be on the hook for being in possession of stolen property.
Discussion: BNET
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Craig Newmark / The Huffington Post:
Trust, Factchecking, and the News Media Landscape To Come  —  What's Your Reaction: … Okay, you hear me talking “trust is the new black” and that power and influence will shift dramatically to the people and groups with the best reputations and largest networks.
Discussion: NewsLab and The Wire
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Alexandra Fenwick / CJR:
Checking In On “This Week's” Fact Checking
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Free advice on how to charge for content  —  This column originally was published in the April edition of Editor & Publisher Magazine and is being reprinted with permission.  To subscribe to the magazine so you can see the full array of industry coverage when it first appears in print, click here.
Anil Dash:
Know Your S**t: Ten Years of Twitter Ads  —  Last week, Twitter announced its new advertising system, called promoted tweets.  I was at Twitter's Chirp conference as a speaker, so I got an up-close look at the reaction to the big news, along with the (frankly, more interesting to me) announcements for developers and media.
Discussion: Social Media Today
Media Week:
Reuters to overhaul website and hints at charging for content  —  LONDON - Reuters is set to relaunch its UK website, reuters.co.uk, this week and has hinted at the possibility of charging for elements of its content.  —  Reuters: overhauls website  —  The revamp of its website comes as Reuters …
Discussion: Editors Weblog
Edmund Lee / AdAge:
Study: Marketers Shifting Online Budgets to Content Sites  —  Expect Ad Dollars to Flow as Recession Loosens Grip  —  NEW YORK (AdAge) — With their ability to cheaply reach eyeballs, online ad networks have commanded more money and attention from marketers in the past few years …
MediaPost:
Bank of America Sponsors History's ‘America’  —  Cable network History is getting some unusual advertising/programming help for its massive 12-hour series “America: The Story of Us” from Bank of America.  —  Bank of America is not only the presenting sponsor of the series — it will produce …
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Zagat was “Crowd Sourcing” Citizen Journalism Way Before it Was Cool  —  Over 30 years ago, Nina and Tim Zagat, two Yale Law School-trained Wall Street lawyers, figured that while critics have important things to say about food and wine, it would be a good plan to source the opinions …
Discussion: Gawker and WebNewser
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Epic!  Jon Stewart: Fox News “Is Truly A Terrible, Cynical News Organization”  —  After receiving some relatively harsh criticism from Fox News analyst Bernie Goldberg earlier this week, Jon Stewart returned the favor.  And how!  In an epic retort that was equal parts comedy, reasoned argument …
 
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Los Angeles Times:
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